A bloody suicide car bombing last week in the Syrian town of Salmiyeh has finally been claimed, with the al-Qaeda backed al-Nusra Front confirming they orchestrated the attack, saying it was meant to “give the tyrannical regime a taste of violence.”
It had been speculated at the time that al-Nusra was behind the attack, as suicide car bombings have been one of their tactics of choice for months, but they just finally got around to issuing the statement confirming the attack, claiming the 42 people killed were “mostly pro-Assad.” Civilians were reportedly among the slain.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who never saw an incident which couldn’t be spun as vindicating French policy, insisted that this proved the need for countries to follow through on funding for the rebels, warning that the extremist portions of the rebel movement would only get stronger as the war continues.
Al-Nusra has indeed grown in power since the civil war began, but is already among the largest and clearly among the best organized rebel factions, so exactly who France and other Western nations think they are installing with rebel aid is unclear.
With our money, arms, communications gear, etc. Stellar examples of "freedom fighters". For now, they are the only ones killing civilians, but no protests from the usual "humanitarians".
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius is as crazy as any of these western idiots. That's all I can see in his statement. To redeem rebels for terrorist acts is insane. Or is it just made in support of neverending "War on Terror"? I am confused.
Jason Ditz seems to me quite happy with this,since he does not condemn these bloody suicide attacks, but writes about the " clearly among the best organized rebel factions" and repeats the rebel statements as it would be his own: saying the car bomb killing 40 people, "was meant to “give the tyrannical regime a taste of violence.”"
That the NATO-terrorists even did destroy Trains filled with people or gas-/Oil-Pipelines, powerplants or actually any kind of civil infrastructure is kept in the dark by antiwar and the corporate war mongering mass media.
May be when next time antiwar supporters are spending enough money, they can also buy a suicide bomber for Syria.
You can buy one for only 600,000 US$ in Saudi Arabia – see here:
Its a dirty pro-war business !
Yes back terrorists, the American Hypocrites pretend to write history, how do the families of US soldiers feel when we support terrorists, some whose groups were responsible for killing their sons and daughters in Iraq?
How does it feel to be used and duped? Yesterday's terrorists are today's freedom fighters! Again, simple-minded American patriots, how does it feel to be used, duped and discarded? Not so good, I bet.